H-P CEO Names
Strategy Chief

Hewlett-Packard Co. named a new chief strategy officer to oversee some of its Internet and software efforts as the company works to retool management in the first year of Meg Whitman's leadership.

The tech giant said Bill Veghte, who spent two decades at Microsoft Corp. and helped launch Windows 7, will lead its cloud and webOS mobile operating system initiatives as part of his new role. He will continue to oversee H-P software as...